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Humanism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Literary Aesthetics
Pragmatist Stories of Progress
Ulf Schulenberg
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Humanism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Literary Aesthetics
Pragmatist Stories of Progress
Ulf Schulenberg
About This Book
Presenting pragmatist humanism as a form of anti-authoritarianism, this book sheds light on the contemporary significance of pragmatist aesthetics and the revival of humanism. This interdisciplinary study shows that a mediation between pragmatist aesthetics â which emphasizes the significance of creating, making, and inventing â and Marxist materialist aesthetics â which values form â promises interesting results and that the former can learn from the latter. In doing so, Ulf Schulenberg discusses 3 layers of the multi-layered phenomenon that is the revival of humanism: He first explains the potential of a pragmatist humanism, clarifying the contemporary significance of humanism. He then argues that pragmatist humanism is a form of anti-authoritarianism. Finally, he shows the possibility of bringing together the resurgence of humanism and a renewed interest in the work of aesthetic form by arguing that pragmatist aesthetics needs a more complex conception of form. Establishing a transatlantic theoretical dialogue, Humanism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Literary Aesthetics brings together literary and aesthetic theory, philosophy, and intellectual history. It discusses a broad range of authors â from Emerson, Whitman, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Dewey to Wittgenstein, LukĂĄcs, Adorno, Jameson, Latour, and Rorty â to illuminate how humanism, pragmatism, and anti-authoritarianism are interlinked.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Humanism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Form
- 2 âWe Have No Duties to Anything Nonhumanâ: Richard Rortyâs Anti-Authoritarianism
- 3 Pragmatism, Humanism, and Form
- 4 â⊠and the Practice Has to Speak for Itselfâ: Wittgenstein, Pragmatism, and Anti-Authoritarianism
- 5 Marxism, Form, and the Negation of Aesthetic Synthesis
- 6 âNothing Is KnownâOnly Realizedâ: Postcritique, Bruno Latour, and the Idea of a Positive Aesthetics
- 7 âI Turned to the Poetsâ: Humanist Stories of Progress
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Copyright Page